Another source of their happiness may be found in their domestic situation.  The Quakers, as I have observed before, in consequence of denying themselves the pleasures of the world, have been obliged to cherish those which are found in domestic life.  In the fashionable world, men and their wives seldom follow their pleasures together.  They resemble the little wooden figures of the man and the woman, which, by moving backwards and forwards in a small painted house, denote the changes of the weather.  While one of these is within, the other is out of doors.  But this is not the case with the Quakers.  The husband and wife are not so easily separable.  They visit generally together.  They are remarked as affectionate.  You never hear of intrigues among them.  They are long in each others society at a time, and they are more at home than almost any other people.  For neither the same pleasures, nor the same occupations, separate these as others.  The husband is never seen at a play, nor at a tavern, nor at a dance.  Neither the naval nor the military profession summons him abroad.  He is seldom concerned in voyages as a mariner.  Hence he must of necessity be much at home.  Add to this, that the Quakers have generally families, with the power of providing for them.  But these circumstances render their homes agreeable to them, and increase their domestic delights.

A third source of the happiness of the Quakers arises from the circumstance of their being almost constantly employed.  Few are so miserable as those who have nothing to do, or who, unable to find employment, feel a dull vacuum in their time.  And the converse of this proposition is equally true, that the time of those flies pleasantly away, who can employ it rationally.  But there is rarely such a being among the Quakers as a lazy person, gaping about for amusement.  Their trades or callings occupy the greater portion of their time.  Their meetings of discipline, as has been already shewn, occupy their time again.  The execution of the various offices to which they may be appointed, such as of overseers, or elders, or committee-men, or arbitrators in disputes, occupies more.  Few Quakers, but particularly the more respectable, have many vacant hours.  And here it may not be improper to remark, that the discipline of the society, organized as it is, is productive of a cheerful and friendly intercourse of the members, or of a sociable manner of spending their time, one with another.  The monthly meetings usually bring two or three particular meetings together.  The members of these, when they have dispatched their business, retire to the houses of their friends, where they take their refreshment, and indulge in the pleasures of conversation.  The quarterly meetings again bring the monthly meetings of the county into one.  Here again, when the business is over, they partake of a similar repast.  Hence a renewal of conversation and of friendship.  The yearly meeting again brings